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TRANSYLVANIA
€0 OVER top; SURE
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M gon« over tiie top
in every drive for wtur fand^ put on
in the county'and theiw it no doubt^
in the miitds of those who kno^w
Transylvania's way of doing tilings
that this counts; is going .to fail to
make the most of her last opportunity
to have a share in making the world
^ fit habitation for free people.
The quota for this county in Vie-
/ tory Liberty Loansds |68,000. About
$50,000 of this amount has been sub
scribed. The work in this campaign
has been slower than that of the
Fourtii Liberty Loan because sub
scribers are as much sought now as
subscriptions. The slogan in the
Fourth Campaign was ‘‘borrow and
buy”. Now the watchword is “in
vest” The Ffth Loan is a real gilt
edge investment in which nothing
worse can happen to the investor than
to receive more than savings bank
interest and the repayments of the
principal in full when it is due. Of
coure Transylvania is going over the
top.
NEW CITY OFHCIALS
ELECTED TUESDAY
Brevard’s municipal election day
was characterized by little excite
ment. This was perhaps due to the
fact that only one regularly nomin
ated ticket was placed before the
people. *
The retiring city board held a meet
ing on Wednesday evening at which
the new town officials, were sworn in
to office.
T. H. Galloway is mayor and F. D.
Clement, R. P. Kilpatrick, R. H.
Zachary, G. W. Marshall and T. D.
Endland compose the Board of
Aldermen.
These gentlemen, some of whom
have already held public offices, are
too well known to need any words
of introduction or commendation
from the NEWS. They have already
assumed the responsibilities incident
to the government of the town and
begin their administration supported
by practically the unanimous vote of
the citizenship. With such a begin
ning they are entering a field of
matchless opportunity for writing a
bright page in the records of Bi^evard.
COMPLIMENTS FROM
OLD NEWSPAPER MAN
F. S. Wetmur and C. N. Wrenshall,
representatives of Rhodes Auto Co.,
distributors for Henderson and Tran
sylvania counties, were in Brevard
on Monday for the purpose of dem
onstrating their Four Wheel Drive
^TVuck, but were called back to Hen-
Aersonville before they were ready
the demonstration. .
I Mr. Wrenshall being an old news
paper man, naturally hunted up the
Nws -office. He said Brevard was
N ^
to be congratulated on having such
a well equipped newspaper and job
office. “It is one of the best equip
ped country shops in the state,” he
said, “and it makes one feel good to
see things kept so neatly.”
While in this, office Mr. Wrens!
happened to look at some three-
job work being done by the
Printery for the Transylvanii
njng Co., and was very much
ed to find work of this kind
being turned out. in a shape
pares favorably with the
larger city printeries. A1
simply goes to back up
said before—that if you Ij
qrlvania county you can
printing right here at hi
Rom| Ov«r
Ccnmtjr Wm 3wyiy>d
Tim A|^
BeauUf^
Greenville.
~ If a plan now in the process of
formation by J. W. Norwood and
others materializes, Greenville county
will secure Federal aid in the sum
of $16,000 to be used in improving,
the Jones Gap road connecting with
North Carolina at Cedar Mountain
and opening l3ie beautiful Brevard
country to Greenville. Rich in truck
gardening and fruit as well as in
scenic beauty, connection of this
beautiful section with Granville it
is believed, will prove of the utmost
value to the city and section, since by
the building of this road farmers of
that region would come to Greenville
with their produce.
Without Cost to Coantjr
It was learned Monday morning
that Mr. Norwood proposes to raise
the sum of $15,000 if so much be nec-
cessary by subscription of his own
and among his friends and vdthout
any cost to the county of Greenville.
The road, it is understood has some
time since been surveyed by Federal
engineers and Federal aid in an
amount similar to that raised from
othet sources may be secured with
out trouble for the building of the
road. The sum of $30,000, it is be
lieved would be sufficient to build a
highway to^ Cedar Mountain connect
ing with the North Carolina end which
has been completed. Such a highway
would open all the beautiful Brevard
country to Greenville and the Green
ville market is sufficiently attractive
as to cause scores of truck and fruit
growers of that section to bring their
produce here.
Williinon Endorses It
“I know of no highway that would
prove of greater value to Greenville
than this proposed Jones Gap Road
which would open the Brevard coun>-
try,” said Supervisor W. H. Willimon
when asked about the matter Monday.
“As you know there are scores of the
' finest truck and fruit growers in the
I south residing in the Brevard country.
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! The building of a good road thru
Greenville county to Cedar Mountain,
there connecting with the North Car
olina line, which has been completed
would in my opinion induce these
North Carolinians to make Greenville
their ‘ chief market.” Mr. Willimon
is worked out.—Greenville Piedmont.
It certainly is right up to our
South Carolina neighbors to get the
Jones Gap road built from Cedar
Mountain to Greenville. As we stated
in these columns a short time ago,
Transylvania has just about fulfilled
the agreement made |>etween Green
ville and Transylvania counties about
the construction.of the Brevard-Green
ville road. Transylvania agreed to
build the road to Cedar Mountain if
Greenville would build the connecting
link between Cedar Mountain and
Greenville. Transylvania has had a
convict force work on this highway
and the road, which is now completed,
is equal to any ^ech of roadway in
the south. AjgO as yet Greenville
County haj^»in^de no tangible begin-
d carrying out her part of
>eem0nt. The peoplfe on this
tb« mountain, are very
to go to see the good folk of
arolina and have them come
often and see what a really
Brevard the Beautiful is.
fixed our road and we hope
not wait much longer to fix
WiiihiailoiH .May.
two-thiNlii wnkf
for
: !•' it liiait the
hei^’ .ind. .imMiI tlke^ fichi lor frei^|i|ip^
'ni^'tliiii;hfaB'df %BG«g«7/ai^
Our split faV% 111^ i^eir heallli, of their^ll^iMjl^
and of their lives that freedom might not
are l,500»d00 American boys in Fr^ahce
Now . that the war is ended, it wOidd
for them to dishonor-the Nation by .4^seri^^|||^he
as for the Natim to dwh«mor itsplf by deser^|; tlw^
Is it a large Uiingi^that we are now asked-to lend our
m<mey to pay the cost of victor]f? b mbiiey
less willing than American imuiho^ v f
Let every one of the millions who have bought Lib
erty hmvls buy Victory notes and success is sure«
YorkWorld.
CARTER GLASS, Secretary of the Treasury.
^pnumiooL
wDisniffiDrtMi
The merabcoES of onrfBoard of Road
Conxn^ioife^ haie^^^ three con
ferences in ^ last two weeks at H^n-
dersonviUe with the Board of Road
Comci^nionen of Henderson County
'and Mr. J. G. Stikeleather, who is a
^^mber of the State Highway Com-
m^on.. The Henderson County
Coiotai^ioners teve made application
for ^te and Federal funds to build
isad surface road .from Hendersonville
to Trfuwyli^ia Cormty line near
^^Transylvania Com-
1^ State and
to i^de and build a
county
line. Un-
der^f^^j^e^ law wluitever amount
to grade and sur^
ROADTOPISGAH
BEING SURVEYED
Work which will open to easy travel
one of the most beautiful scenic high
ways in the south is now being carried
on in, this county by the government.
This road, which is now being survey
ed by government engineers, leads
from Pisgah Forest to Bennetts Gap
where it intersects with the Vander
bilt road to the top of Pisgah Moun
tain. The new road will follow with
a few exceptions the route of the
road now known as the Biennects Gap
Road over which a journey to the
Pink Beds has always left a very last
ing impression upon the many travel
ers who have feasted their eyes on
the beauties of nature while riding
over a corduroy road which, is proba
bly unequaled anywhere else in the
United States. However before an
other summer comes around a stretch
of Macadam highway will make this
region easily accessible, i It is esti
mated that the work of building the
road will take at least twelve months
after the survey is completed. It is
stated that very little grading will
have to be done however as the grade
of the present road averages less than
two per cent and this of course will
shorten to a great extent the time
required for completion of the .road,
which when finished will doubtless
become one of the most famous scenic
highways in the country.
MRS. GALLOWAY BEXtER.
lenn made a bpiness trip
'/OTii S. C.I this week.
Friends of Mrs. Welch Galloway,
who is seriously ill in Asheville, will
be glad to learn that latest reports
given out by her physician are fav
orable.
MEMBER OF W. N. C. CONFER
ENCE
Rev. W. E. Poovey has been ap
pointed a member of the Western
North Carolina Conference Sunday
School Board. This board will have
charge of a number of institutes for
Sunday School teachers which will be
held in this section of the state thte
summer. The first of these institutes
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will open at Hendersonville on May
the 15th.
AT THE METHODIST CHURCH
9:45 a. m.—Sunday School.
11:00 a. m.—Sermon; subject:
“The Unfaithful Steward.**
8 :15 p. m.—A sermon on “The
^ects of Sin Upoh a Life.**
UTTIE RIVER TAIES
A FORWARD STEP
The Agricultural Club of lattle
River held its regular meeting last
Friday night and the largre attendance
was one of the several indications of
vitalized interest.
The main topic for consideration
was expanding the present club into
a more comprehensive organization,
which shall deal with every phase of
community development. The Farm
and Home Demonstration Agents, Mr.
Lawrence and Miss Cassidy, presented
the plan of a community league for
■discussion. It is the idea of these
two agents to completely organise the
life around some one community cen
ter as a demonstration of what may
be accomplished in community build
ing through co-operative effort. The
plan of the league contemplates the
usual officers and active- committees
doing intensive work along the six
lines of community development, viz :
1, Agricultural or industrial; 2, Edu
cational; 3, Moral and religious; 4,
Domestic or home making; 5, Health;
6, Recreational and social.
It did not require any great length
of time to enable this wide-awake
community to grasp the idea and to
see what such an organization would
mean in quickening the life and de
veloping the' latent possibilities of
their neighborhood, and *‘they all
decided of one accord” to lead out
along this line and set a new pace
for rural progress. This will be the
first organized rural community in
Transylvania and one of the first in
Western North Carolina.
The formal organization of the
league is to be effected at an early
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date, perhaps within the next twfo or
three weeks, and the program of the
occasion promises to be an eventful
one. Elaborate plans and prepara
tions are being considered by the
committee on plans, and a full an
nouncement will be made later.
Little River is to be heartily con
gratulated on this forwardlooking
move, for a people who has'a vision
and forges forward to a realization
of its ideal serves not only its own
interest but their county and state
as well. Our hats are off to Little
River..
AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH
9:45 a. m.—Sunday School.
^ Preaching at 41:00 a. m. and 8:30
p. m. by the pastor.
-All strangers among us cordially
invited.
A. K. Orr of Asheville is visiting
his broths, C> E. Orr. .
the Federal Govem-
nten^ and State Crovemment pays 75
perXeent of samie. Our county has
Slre4dy been promised ' State Aid,
which is to maintain the present road
from the Henderson county line to
the JfMlbon^eounty Bnei which means
that alf read-machine work and drf^-
£ing - iSv^ ;be donc^to the n^n l&e
road, , that one h&lf of, the money they
spmd on such work .¥dll be paid back
^ Transylvania county.'- -
BUY VICTORY BONDS
Blow the bugle, beat the driim;
Victory to our arms has come!
Unfurl the banner, all respond,
Fairittjline buy a VictoiT Bond.
They are saving, put awa^;
Tou will n^d them quick some day.
Protect your loved one while you can^
Buy Victory Bonds from Uncle
Sam.
Misfortune will come your way,
.-►So prepare for a rainy day.
You will possess a magic wand
If you own a Victory Bond.
Stop! reflect! then think again;
Remember that it is your gain.
Every qerve within you strain;
Buy Victory Bonds—show you are
sane.
DOUGLAS WEIR,
Arlington Greenmount Ave.
Baltimore, Md.
ACCIDENT NEAR
PISGAH FOREST
The young people of .St. Phillips
Sunday School are fe^ ia numbers'
but tiiey don*t let tliis enter their ebn-
sideiatiqns in . planning . work to lie
done, and this ^ear tiiey almost^cap-
tured the banner pronlised to the
Sunday School in ^e Asheville Dis-
teict which should report the largest
Lenten offering when aU the Sunday
Schools o^/the'distridt m<^ at Silt-'
more in May. Tl^ meeting took
place last Saturday in All Souls
Church, Biltmore. ‘ Every Sundsj
School in the district was irepreswnt-
flidi However St. I^illips Simdi^
School was the only one except Abbe
ville to have fifty i>er cent of its mem
bers present.
The assembled Sunday Schools*
'wete addressed by Bishop Horace,
^who preMnted the banner to thft Sun- -
day School'of St. James
Hendersonville.. The members of this
school had raised an amount equal to
five doffais per capita for their Len
ten differing. The Sunday ^hool of
Gflsj^<«ia ■ came second and -.Brevard
'^nie /third ^^th; thirty members alid
a sum . over sixt^-dollars. • ’
■ The banner of red satm bore tiie
following words in gold letters
^Largest Lenten Offering 1919** and
the Sunday School which wins it fat
threie successive years will become
the permanent possessor of the '^ze.
The money for the Lenten offering'
is made by the children thru some
•personal effort of their own and is
devoted to the use of the Board of
Missions to be used inreferably for
work among cUldren" ■ f
After the service in the church the
children enjoyed a picnic dinner on
the Biltmore green. Mrs. J. C. Seagle
and Miss Eliza Wallis chaperoned tiie
children of St. Philips.
WORKTOBERESDNED
ON SCHOOL BDIUHNG
Two persons had a narrow escape
from injury last Sunday morning
when a horse and buggy collided with
an automobile on the Davidson River
road. The accident occxired about
two o’clock in the morning. The car
was driven by a colored boy.
When he had reached a point
a sjiort distance beyond Pisgah Forest
the lights on the machine went out.
The chauffeur started to walk back made,
to Pisgah Forest to procure some
lights. When he had gone a very
short distance the thought occured
to him that he had left the car too
near the middle of the road for safe
ty. Accordingly he retraced his steps
with the intention of getting the
machine out of danger. Just, as he
took Ua seat in the car a buggy'
dashed down the road and crashed
into the automobile. The bug^ was
driven by a ^on of Mr. W. L. Car
michael of Davidson River. The
young man wi» uninjured, but the
horse was cut in iseveral places about
the head. The chauffeur returned
to town and gave himself up to the
authorities. The car is the property
of W. E. Bishop and was only slight
ly damaged. Br. Bishop offered to
pay for the damiige but his overtures
were not accepted by Mr. Carmichael
who .It is stated will resort to legal
procedure to secure damage.
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The woric* on the Brevard High
School building which has been sus
pended for some* time will be resumed
next week, and it is hoped that the
construction of the building can be
pushed to completion withopt any
further loss Of time. .
This recent delay was caused by de
fault of T. J. Boyles the contractor.
Mr. Boyles it is stated has misappro*
priated between four and five 4iiou-
sand dollars of the school fund and
otherwise conducted the business con
nected with the work in such a man
ner as to' forjteit his contract. His
bondsmen, the U . S. Fidelity &
Guaranty Co, of Baltimore, have a
represeptative here now who will take
personal charge of the work until
a satisfactory adjustment can be
and as stated above the
structure is to be completed as rapid
ly as possible.
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GOV. BICKETT WILL BE IN BRE-
' YARD. SUNDAY
Gov. T. W. Bickett, whojs making
a trip throu|^ Western Nortli Caro
lina in the interest of the good roads
movement, wili^ispent a few
here next Sunday en route* from
AshevlUe to Toxaway. While ' Mero
Gov. Bickett the guest of ifr.
and Mrs., T. H. ^pman. ‘
ANNUAL CLEAN-UP DAY
May the tenth will be oba^nrel as
Clean-Up Day st ,Osk Grove.^ Afl
pa^es interested m to"
be; presjent with ssiutaMe
ting the grounds in